Canada: Migrant population
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Canada |
Migrant population, percent of total population |
---|---|
Latest value | 22 |
Year | 2015 |
Measure | percent |
Data availability | 1990 - 2015 |
Average | 19 |
Min - Max | 16 - 22 |
Source | United Nations Population Division |
The latest value from 2015 is 22 percent, an increase from 21 percent in 2010. In comparison, the world average is 10 percent, based on data from 195 countries. Historically, the average for Canada from 1990 to 2015 is 19 percent. The minimum value, 16 percent, was reached in 1990 while the maximum of 22 percent was recorded in 2015.
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Definition: International migrant stock is the number of people born in a country other than that in which they live. It also includes refugees. The data used to estimate the international migrant stock at a particular time are obtained mainly from population censuses. The estimates are derived from the data on foreign-born population--people who have residence in one country but were born in another country. When data on the foreign-born population are not available, data on foreign population--that is, people who are citizens of a country other than the country in which they reside--are used as estimates. After the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 people living in one of the newly independent countries who were born in another were classified as international migrants. Estimates of migrant stock in the newly independent states from 1990 on are based on the 1989 census of the Soviet Union. For countries with information on the international migrant stock for at least two points in time, interpolation or extrapolation was used to estimate the international migrant stock on July 1 of the reference years. For countries with only one observation, estimates for the reference years were derived using rates of change in the migrant stock in the years preceding or following the single observation available. A model was used to estimate migrants for countries that had no data.
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Population density | 4 | 2021 | people per square km |
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